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Final day of my summer trip today.I hear that the temperature in Palermo has gone down to reasonable levels (around 25°c),so that’s a good thing.
The part of London I’m staying in (where my sister lives) is fairly quiet, and it is between two very different areas of the city… one is a very upmarket area, lots of very expensive cafés and nice restaurants.The other is much poorer,full of takeaway chicken shops, with a big outdoor street market.
People always say that London has gentrified a lot, and it’s true, but there are still lots of less well-off people living here.Plenty of public housing remains, and houses divided into flats with lots of people living inside.
On the other side, there are families with multi -million pound flats,designer dogs,and a massive SUV.Its a very divided city.
I sometimes pick up one of those supermarket magazines. They’re very entertaining. Those from regular supermarkets usually have “seasonal” recipes (the one I got yesterday already had Halloween stuff in it. I wonder what they’ll do in October) as well as “exotic” or “oriental” recipes with stuff like pineapple juice and curry powder (which is mostly the only spice you’ll find). The ones from organic supermarkets tend to be very ideological and usually have a few articles on how organic is the one and only way and how conventional agriculture will be the death of us all (just like the other pamphlets lack spice, these usually lack nuance). Drug stores like Rossmann have anything from recipes to beauty tips. But I can often find one or two things I’d like to try. Then I never do, and it gets thrown away.
Do supermarkets in your country also have magazines with recipes, articles etc? Do you ever grab one?
I’m currently in Leipzig. I tried to order tap water at a restaurant and was told “it’s not allowed in Germany”.
At first I thought the waiter was joking, but I looked it up afterwards and apparently drinking tap water in Germany is just not a thing, even at home. Despite the fact that it’s perfectly safe and drinkable. Which I never knew.
Woke: having drinkable tap water and drinking it
Broke: having undrinkable tap water and not drinking it
Bespoke: having drinkable tap water and not drinking it
Something I’ve noticed that I get way fewer lurgies living in California compared to living in Europe. And when I do get them, it’s often either from having travelled to Europe myself or from my parents who come to visit me and give me the most disgusting lurgies imaginable.
I’m not sure entirely why this is. Maybe temperature’s genuinely part of it. Another is that I just interact with way fewer people on a day-to-day basis here (especially not taking public transport), and ending up in large crowds of people is rare (and when I do, it’s usually outside).
But in any case, now when I *do* get European lurgies, they completely knock me out. And that’s just from living in the US for a year and half non-continuously. Imagine if I lived here for 20,000 years and then Europeans arr*ummm, that’s a bit tasteless – Ed*.